Parsing a date with short month without dot

Question

I have a String that represents a date in French locale : 09-oct-08 :

I need to parse that String so I came up with this SimpleDateFormat :

String format2 = "dd-MMM-yy";

But I have a problem with the month part, that seems to be expected with a ending dot :

df2.format(new Date());

gives me :

 28-oct.-09

What is now the best way for me to make SimpleDateFormat understand ("09-oct-08") ?

Full Code :

String format2 = "dd-MMM-yy"; 
DateFormat df2 = new SimpleDateFormat(format2,Locale.FRENCH); 
date = df2.parse("09-oct-08");

This gives me : java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "09-oct-08"

And if I then try to log :

df2.format(new Date());

I get : 28-oct.-09

user_11728822 · Answer

try this :

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Locale;
//from w  w  w  .j  av  a 2  s . com
public class Main {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    String timeStamp = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd hh:mm:ss yyyy",
        Locale.FRANCE).format(new Date());
    System.out.println(timeStamp);

  }
}

link : http://www.java2s.com/Tutorials/Java/Data_Type_How_to/Legacy_Date_Format/Show_a_date_in_french_format.htm

Parsing a date with short month without dot

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